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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Sunday, July 31, 2011

It's Threadcakes time again, peeps! This is the contest inviting you (yes, YOU) to make a cake of your favorite Threadless shirt design. There are fun prizes, and your cakes are judged by the likes of Mary Alice from Ace of Cakes, Bakerella, Bake and Destroy, and yes, even yours truly. :D

One of my favorite parts is seeing how folks interpret a 2D illustration into a 3D cake sculpture. You know, like this:

Yes, these are amazing. Not as cakes, but as works of art. They are more like clay sculptures than cakes. I feel the same way about the cake shows on TV. They used to be about decorating cakes. Now they do more modeling, not even using cake as the base anymore. They don't even look edible. In fact, the bakers on the shows serve another cake to the guests in most cases, so maybe they aren't. For contests, fine, but I want my cake to have more icing than modeling ingredients.

That first one looks like a cousin of a totoro! And all of them are . . . wow. Just utterly wow. I'll stick to crafting words. I'm neither creative enough nor steady enough to design and make something like those.

I can pick a favorite quite easily. One word: BLANKA. For those who aren't familiar with Street Fighter, Blanka is the orange-haired green guy on the video game cake. I love video games, and Blanka is my favorite video game character. Woot woot!

Wow...these are so incredible! I can make pretty awesome cakes, but I couldn't even come close to competing with these and others like them. I was going to enter a cake, but now probably not. Have fun judging, though *:)*

To Sandy: Threadless is a site where the customers can submit designs for T-shirts and the best ones are actually created. You can find some really great T's there. Cake Wrecks is how I found out about it in the first place after last year's contest. I have now picked up several T's for myself and for presents throughout this year.

Rebecca did an amazing job on "The Friendly Spirit" and if she ever decided to make it out of clay, I would buy it for my office. They were all wonderful, but I just can't take my eyes off of Rebecca's design. Since I buy Threadless t-shirts all the time, these contests are always a thrill for me to see what people come up with!

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